Weekly Digest 13
At some point I will accept that these “digest” posts are not weekly, at least not right now — we’re still in the so-called fourth trimester so finding quiet time where I have the energy is still a challenge. I’m on half-term break now and on Saturday I got to see some old friends I had not seen since before the pandemic, so that was lovely
Links
- You Should Be Using An RSS Reader. I would imagine the readers of this blog don’t need to hear this message, and have probably read this article already, but this will now be my go-to link if I ever have to recommend RSS.
- Claims that ‘AI can replace teachers’ betray a very poor understanding of teachers’ work.
- A woman, blogging: this is a political act Lovely stuff from Tracy Durnell, especially on the risks a Trump victory poses to freedom of speech.
- Notation Must Die. A fascinating video essay on the history of modern Western music notation — how it developed, and the many attempts to reform or replace it.
Playing
I played Doki Doki Literature Club after following a thread from Dan Fixes Coin Ops. Not what I’d usually play, but short enough and pretty neat.
Reading
For casual reading, I’ve been enjoying The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin. For more serious reading, I’m reading Plato’s Republic. It’s been over 10 years since I read it last, and education is such a major theme of that work, and since I’m now an educator, I’m looking forward to reading it from a very different perspective.
Watching
Ludwig is a lot of fun, isn’t it?
On this blog
Originally I used tags to categorise the form of posts, mainly using the article tag to distinguish from microposts. But I don’t really do microposts on this blog anymore; I prefer Mastodon rather than “cluttering” my site and my RSS feed. So in future I’ll be using them to classify by topic.